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I am sure it will be, but there might be portions of the lighting/etc that can't fit into the venue from a practical standpoint that you probably won't miss.

EDIT: Also, this isn't Trent's first rodeo. NIN plays smaller venues in Vegas on several tours, I am sure there are people who have seen them at the pearl and the like as well as arenas on the same tours that would have better input beyond total speculation.

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Originally Posted by Drinkey McDrinkerstein

I am sure it will be, but there might be portions of the lighting/etc that can't fit into the venue from a practical standpoint that you probably won't miss.

EDIT: Also, this isn't Trent's first rodeo. NIN plays smaller venues in Vegas on several tours, I am sure there are people who have seen them at the pearl and the like as well as arenas on the same tours that would have better input beyond total speculation.

I am actually one of those people, hehe. I have seen him here at the Thomas & Mack Arena (Fragility 2.0), at the Planet Hollywood Performing Arts Theater (2006 and 2008), but the only show comparable in size to this one was the NIN/JA show at the Pearl in 2009, which was a stripped down production anyhow. The stage at the joint is bigger than you might think for a venue of its capacity, though, so we will see. In any event, there is always the viewpoint that any variation from the standard Tension show makes those even more special.

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I hope so. I got a ticket in bleeders, but after getting in the pitt for the NINJA tour I'm dying to see them up close again. Having said that I know it matters less since they're going back to the major production style tour with all the bells and whistles.

"It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge"

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a hundred bucks and no more GA? Waiting for secondary market or another show. Though Premier Section at Staples is very nice and recommended for shorter beer and pisser lines if you like those things and seats.

The artworks, (30 mixed media pieces) that I eventually produced towards uses in the Hesitation Marks releases, evolved out of lengthy exchanges between myself and Trent and in response to the conceptual ideas that thread through the tracks and to the sonic territory that the album explores. I’ve tried to lock into the album’s prevailing mood and echo the album’s essence. The ideas are not communicated in a literal or easily digested form, as this would be boring for me and would insult the intelligence of a potential audience. I’ve tried to make works that obliquely allude to the essence of the subject matter, to its emotional core.
As with my self-initiated works - the paintings, assemblages, collages and multimedia installations - personal ideas and obsessions seep into these works. The organic, the natural, prevailing over or feeding into the industrial, the man made, is a common theme in my work generally and in this instance was particularly apt for the art required.
The works explore ideas of catharsis, of being into dissolution into being, both on a personal and sociological level. They allude to ideas about chaos and order. They deal with ways of suggesting presence in absence. They are a cross between the forensic and a pathology of the personal in which only fragments remain, in which minimal clues can suggest events that may have occurred. They attempt to harness the chaos of a situation, of now, of the personal trauma, of the human condition, into a form that is coherent, a form that accommodates the mess without disguising it as something else. It attempts to capture the essence of these ideas by implication and exclusion. Beneath the form lies the uncertainty and ceaseless flux of the mess, of the chaos.
An amalgam of the contextually-anchored and the process-driven, they are hopefully powerful, arresting, seductive, suggestive and resonant. I hope that they will invite multiple readings.
Hesitation Marks is out September 3rd. Pre-order now direct from nin.com or from iTunes.

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Originally Posted by superfan

Why would there still be floor tickets 8 hours after an onsale like this?

There are still floor tickets left for the phoenix date. I think Trent made a mistake by going straight into the full blown arena tour. He should of played a handful of club dates like in 2005. So as to build hype/test the waters and guarantee a sellout. The high ticket price probably doesn't help much either.

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Nine Inch Nails have finished production rehearsals at the Los Angeles Sports Arena and are on their way to Japan to start the 2013 festival tour for two festival dates in the pacific rim before heading out to Grant Park in Chicago for Lollapalooza! Niigata, Japan at the Fuji Rocks Festival, is the first performance Nine Inch Nails will have done since their 2009 Wave Goodbye Tour. This show will be streamed live from the festival on their YouTube page. For us people over in the states, the show is on July 26th at 7:30 AM EST. Hoping to see a few of you at Lollapalooza as well!

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What kind of setlist do you think we're going to get at these gigs? How many new songs? Any deep cuts that haven't been played on recent tours?

I would love to hear "Into the Void" and my long shot would be "The Four of Us Are Dying."

Not sure about the summer festival shows, but with the album coming out in a September I would expect at least a few new songs. I feel like Trent is pretty good about pulling out deep cuts every tour too.

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Don't know if this argument was settled or not but:

Originally Posted by Trent

"The fact that we’re doing all this only for these few shows, and then we have to do it over again, throwing all this out to do a completely new thing, with new things that won’t work, that feels a little insane."